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    Dorothy Day against Social Security

    I don't think that works. One of the basic points of distributism is the necessity of integration, of individuals into families, of families into communities, more or less as laid out by Aristotle in "Politics." (I must cite Father Cassian Sibley of the Russian Orthodox church as the one who...
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    Dorothy Day against Social Security

    The issue I think is that socialism and communism are usually based on a foreign set of assumptions to Distributism. I would have no problem with the statement that Distributism is the perfect system of communist libertarian socialist capitalism. I am however entirely sure that such a...
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    Dorothy Day against Social Security

    Looking around, wondering why people keep denying that we are in one. BTW, not blaming Obama btw. These things don't just happen out of thin air. The Reagan-Bush-Clinton era is entirely to blame than Obama or even GWB (and I would single out policies of Reagan and Clinton as the biggest...
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    Dorothy Day against Social Security

    I don't consider myself a political conservative, a Catholic, or even a Christian (despite my presence here). I do find distributist philosophy, including the religious area, to be an area where I share a great deal of common ground with some Catholics. And no I don't think Ryan is a...
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    Dorothy Day against Social Security

    Many interesting people used to belong to the communist party in one form or another. My mother's uncle used to and yet I remember having this wonderful discussion with him on the Second Amendment in the 1990's where he argued that the correct Constitutional interpretation was exactly that one...
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    Dorothy Day against Social Security

    Poor Dorothy Day, being confused with everyone from Ayn Rand to the communists.... I suppose the price of been a deep and free thinker is to be universally demonized and adored often by the same people. I don't get that. I mean if Dorothy Day was a communist by that measure, I guess the Pope...
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    Dorothy Day against Social Security

    I don't think anyone would believe that you should do without electricity or go live in a hut. I didn't say everyone. I said most people. Also the principle is subsidiarity, which means that control should be at the most local level possible. Families should respect personal autonomy...
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    Dorothy Day against Social Security

    From a distributist perspective, of course you can't but the solution to that problem is to try to minimize the number of jobs, and maximize self-employment. Hilaire Belloc (one of the thinkers Day followed to a significant extent) was pretty clear on that. Day's point (and honestly I am...
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    Dorothy Day against Social Security

    I don't think that's quite correct. Day, in context, was arguing against: 1) Social Security, or universal federal pensions generally 2) A general argument against the idea that the Holy Mother State will save us from ourselves. At the same time, I think Day would be very...